Kaname Reina

"Nice to meet you. Please just call me Reina. I already hope that we can get along in the future."

- Reina's Self-Introduction Catchphrase 

Reina Kaname (鹿目 礼奈 Kaname Reina) is one of the current candidates for AKB0048's 155th generation draft.

She is also used to being affectionately nicknamed as Rena (レナ). She is a pretty well-mannered and mature teenager who holds a great sense of Justice. Mature to the point that she was know as The adult trapped in a teenage girl's body (乙女の体に閉じ込められた大人 Otome no karada ni tojikome rareta otona) in her highschool.

Reina comes from a poor family in an extremely precarious situation, which is why she hesitates to become an idol, despite her love for 00s and Entertainment in general.

Appearance
Reina has long, soft, slightly wavy, coral pink hair, as well as two strands one on the other framing her face, facing her cheeks and chin while two other longer strands fall on her chest. Her forehead is fully exposed even if there is sometimes a small strand of hair touching almost her nose. Reina also generally wears a small wreath of artificial flowers on her head.

In order to correct her slight short-sightedness, she wears thin circular red glasses covering her slanted tea-coloured eyes. However, she does not wear them all the time. Similar to almost every 00s member, heart-shaped reflections are visible in Reina's eyes and hair. Reina also has a diamond-shape in her eyes (distinct from those of graduates members), which is probably a reference to her address for card games. She has a small mole on the right side of her nose. Her silhouette is quite trim and her complexion is rather fair, although it tends to pale colour.

Her dress style is plain, confortable, discreet and very "adult-like". Indeed, Reina has a clothing range quite limited because of the poverty of her family. Many of her clothes belonged to her mother. Reina cares little about current fashion trends, and often values the practical side of her clothes.

She rarely wears makeup, and if she does, its very light.

Personality
Reina is a young girl characterized by her strong sense of Justice because her family suffered a heavy injustice. Having a large family (and a sick father) that she has to constantly looking after, she always tries hard to be resourceful and responsible, and has an honorable sense of duty.

She is naturally friendly, composed, diligent, understandingand rather polite, yet she can show a very sensitive, indecisive behavior when it comes to matters concerning the family. It's because her family means everything to her. She did not have the opportunity to have many friends because she had to take care of her family all the time. As a result, she usually calls to people with their full name, not out of contempt or anything but it's just a habit she has since she was very young, because she's not accustomed to being close to other people than her family.

She tries to never lose her cool even though she is facing a difficult situation. She also has a more competitive and calculative side, especially when it comes to card games.

Because of her mature appearance and attitude, people tend to forget that she is still a teenager who has a secret interest in cute things.

Furthermore, Reina is a resolute person, patient, helpful, accepting and generally pacifist; albeit she is almost never afraid to speak of her mind.

Skills
Reina's skills, coming mainly from her social background, are more like those of a stereotypical mother than a girl teenager.

Due to having to take care of her large family, Reina excels in all kinds of housework. Her culinary skills are exemplary, and she can clean any place very effectively.

She is also very comfortable taking care of children and enjoys it. She is good at handling and saving money and expenses.

Thanks to her composure and her somewhat strategic mind, Reina is exceptionally good at playing card games. She can easily defeat other talented adult players by thinking "outside the box".

Additionnaly, she has made many trips to arcades to relax. It is thanks to these short escapades that Reina discovered an innate talent for Danmaku and Dance Dance Revolution.

Chronology
Reina was born and grew on Tekistar. She is the eldest child of a huge, very poor family. Its consists of her grandmother, her sick father after an accident, her mother almost always at work, her aunt, her uncle, her siblings and her cousins. Despite its poverty, her family has a rule: Everyone must be around the table at the time of the meal. Her life was not easy but her family members was supportive of each other and they were united.

Reina's family has not always been so poor. Her father was once a laborer who worked hard to support his family, and her mother was a housewife. Unfortunately, he got sick. He warned his employer of his illness, but he told her that if he stopped working, he would refuse to grant him sick leave. Her father continued to work because he was the only source of income in the family. But he was more and more weakened by his illness, and ended up getting hurt while working. He could not move from his bed and his employer immediately licensed him by learning that. The business where her uncle worked went bankrupt, and he was forced to move to his brother's home to find himself homeless with his wife and children.

Reina discovered the 00s while surfing the Internet, and began to listen to their songs more and more often as it allowed her to escape for a moment of her difficult everyday life. She could not help but hope for another life filled with dream and adventure.

She tried to participate in the 154th generation Auditions under the encouragement of her family as her father seemed to be getting better, but on her way to the auditions, she had received a message that her father's health had worsened and that he was in the hospital. She left the auditions to return at home.

Since this event, although Reina desperately wants to be part of the 00s, she is too scared that daring to leave, something happens to her family. She doesn't know if she must fulfill her dream and leave, or stay repressing her own desires for the benefit of her family as she has ever done.

Her family does not want her to continue put her live on hold for them. So her grandmother created the "Help Reina" plan that consistes of find a way to make sure that Reina participate in the auditions without her having the choice. Therefore, her siblings secretly filmed her singing a random song from the 00s and sent it to the 00s.

Etymology
"Kaname" is written as 鹿目. 鹿 can be translated as deer and 目 can be translated as eye.

"Reina" is written as 礼奈 and has no special meaning in Japanese. However, it can be translated as queen in Spanish.

"Rena" (レナ) her nickname; is directly derived from her first name. It's her younger siblings and her cousins who nicknamed her like that.

Quotes

 * "Nice to meet you. Please just call me Reina. I already hope that we can get along in the future. " - Reina's Self-Introduction Catchphrase.

Achievements

 * -|Senbatsu Sousenkyo=


 * -|Jyanken Taikai=


 * -|AKBingo!


 * -|Lucky Ranking=

Career

 * -|Acting=

Trivia

 * Audition Song: Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai
 * Hobbies: Looking after her beloved family, Cooking, Cleaning, Listening music, Playing card games, Danmaku and DDR.
 * Penlight Colour : Tawny
 * Blood Type: A
 * Currently, Reina doesn't have a social media for the simple reason she has never had time for that.
 * She secretly loves cute things and her room is stuffed with stuffed animals. She has even more than all her sisters and brothers together.
 * Reina once had a boyfriend in middle school but they broke up because he thought she was taking care of her family far too much.
 * Her voice actress was chosen because she voiced Meigo Arisa, an another idol from the anime movie To Aru Majutsu no Index: Endymion no Kiseki.